The Latest Story

This story was prepared and fed to the press solely by Kate and Gerry McCann and their "ex-employee" Clarence Mitchell. The McCanns authorised Mitchell to pretend to be a source within the investigation, with the condition attached that the papers carrying the story were not to name him as the true source. Mitchell has no knowledge of any kind regarding recent operations of Grange.

Readers may wonder why the McCanns, who have countless times stated that they do not comment on Grange operations, should be providing misinformation about an investigation dedicated to discovering the fate of their daughter.

One answer lies in the consistency of their "anonymous" media interventions: the message is always the same - Grange is always picking out absurd new "suspects", always running out of money, always "throwing dice" or going for "last hopes", always failing to nail anyone, always failing to get co-operation from the Portuguese. With such a record of chaos and failure their eventual conclusions are bound to be, surprise, surprise, worthless. Just as the conclusions of the PJ were in 2007, when the same corny "last throw of the dice" stuff was used against them.* They're a very unlucky couple with investigations into the fate of their daughter, aren't they?

Their greatest allies in this strategy are not the MSM but the net and twitter loonies who fall for this guff every time as proof that Grange is a "charade". But then they've been ruthlessly used by the couple for at least the last three years, the poor sods.

The "Details"

Scotland Yard are now investigating as high priority a critical new lead: that Madeleine McCann was abducted by a gang of people traffickers.

No, they are not.The claim is an invention by the McCanns' media team.

Senior Whitehall officials have been briefed about it by the police because it is so important.

No, they have not.That is an invention by the McCanns' media team.

As a result extra funding has been granted for more months of investigation.

No, it has not. No extra funding whatever has been granted. The funding remains the £95 000 granted earlier this year, which runs until April 2017. It is an invention of the McCanns' media team.

The Metropolitan Police are calling this the "last throw of the dice".

No, they are not.No such comment has been made by any officer of the Yard. It is an invention of Kate and Gerry McCann's media team.

The Portuguese police have said that both they and the British are focusing on this "latest theory".

No, they have not. No Portuguese police officer has made such a statement, either on or off the record, as any reader can see for themselves. It is an invention of the McCanns' media team.

* "With the investigation apparently fizzling out it could have been one last throw of the dice for the habitually eccentric Portuguese police operation." Belfast Telegraph 2007. Courtesy of BB/MCF

Poor Old Useless Grange

In 2014 the Bureau, without making a fuss about it, revealed how Grange had located the inside source of a number of leaks about Grange "difficulties" and "problems" being used in Mitchell-placed stories. How did they find it? Using the intelligence services technique of constructing a fictional report, tracking where it surfaced and then tracing it, irrefutably, back to the offender - in Portugal. Where the McCanns PR people Lift Consulting are based. The leaks ended.

It would be very foolish for Mitchell to believe that Grange stopped doing things like that back in 2014.

Thanks,GemG,so according to Blacksmith,Operation Grange or MI5, used a trace source operation traced back a fictional story back to a PR firm Lift consulting in Portugal in 2014? If what Blacksmith states is True? Then why haven't Operation Grange investigated this intrusion into a Police operation and detained the Company Directors for"Perverting the Coarse of Justice"?Or haven't Operation Grange enough staff to investigate,serious intrusions into ongoing investigations,or are they part of the Mystery,surrounding the Secrecy of Madeleine McCann?A picture of Madeleine in her Everton shirt is now being linked to the Football abuse inquiry,Gary Speeds,taking of his own life,Justin Fashanu,linked to MP's Death,MI5/6?

@willowthewisp wrote:Thanks,GemG,so according to Blacksmith,Operation Grange or MI5, used a trace source operation traced back a fictional story back to a PR firm Lift consulting in Portugal in 2014? If what Blacksmith states is True? Then why haven't Operation Grange investigated this intrusion into a Police operation and detained the Company Directors for"Perverting the Coarse of Justice"?Or haven't Operation Grange enough staff to investigate,serious intrusions into ongoing investigations,or are they part of the Mystery,surrounding the Secrecy of Madeleine McCann?A picture of Madeleine in her Everton shirt is now being linked to the Football abuse inquiry,Gary Speeds,taking of his own life,Justin Fashanu,linked to MP's Death,MI5/6?

I've just emailed PeterMac and asked him the same question!Not had a reply yet though.

eta Peter's reply:

Perhaps it suits them !If they denied it, they would then be asked to make a statement about what was actually happening.Hence the nonsense about "Not a suspect" the day before someone is arrested and charged - which we have seen over and over again.P

"In 2014 the Bureau, without making a fuss about it, revealed how Grange had located the inside source of a number of leaks about Grange "difficulties" and "problems" being used in Mitchell-placed stories. How did they find it? Using the intelligence services technique of constructing a fictional report, tracking where it surfaced and then tracing it, irrefutably, back to the offender - in Portugal".

My goodness! How does this amazing man have all this fantastic inside knowledge! Contacts in Scotland Yard, contacts in Portugal, contacts here, contacts there, contacts everywhere!

Or is he just a pretentious pretender?

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"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" - Paul's first letter to his disciple Timothy, 1 Timothy 1 v 15

"In 2014 the Bureau, without making a fuss about it, revealed how Grange had located the inside source of a number of leaks about Grange "difficulties" and "problems" being used in Mitchell-placed stories. How did they find it? Using the intelligence services technique of constructing a fictional report, tracking where it surfaced and then tracing it, irrefutably, back to the offender - in Portugal".

My goodness! How does this amazing man have all this fantastic inside knowledge! Contacts in Scotland Yard, contacts in Portugal, contacts here, contacts there, contacts everywhere!

Or is he just a pretentious pretender?

The very same thought has crossed my mind too, unless Blacksmith is getting it from the horses mouth?

____________________“Basically, I’m just an ordinary, straightforward guy who’s the victim of the biggest f***-up on this planet – if you’ll excuse the language.”

"In 2014 the Bureau, without making a fuss about it, revealed how Grange had located the inside source of a number of leaks about Grange "difficulties" and "problems" being used in Mitchell-placed stories. How did they find it? Using the intelligence services technique of constructing a fictional report, tracking where it surfaced and then tracing it, irrefutably, back to the offender - in Portugal".

My goodness! How does this amazing man have all this fantastic inside knowledge! Contacts in Scotland Yard, contacts in Portugal, contacts here, contacts there, contacts everywhere!

**The McCanns' spokesman is briefing on the Grange investigation in ways which could be harmful to the course of justice. Until he and his clients cease to do so then we'll point them out.**

"Can you imagine what would have happened if ......".

In the week following May 3 2007 Kate and Gerry McCann did two things.They claimed explicitly and publicly that they supported the police investigation. They began anonymously spreading poison about the police investigation using proxies.

"...we’d announced to the journalists heading for Huelva...

When the PJ began developing lines of investigation that the parents might describe as "unhelpful", they moved on and developed an elaborate and well-funded system for briefing the British public against the PJ. In order to reduce the chances of being found out - for what they were doing was illegal - they used the coaching provided by PR man Alex Woolfall to set up a highly structured and complex mode of news management.

"...that the police were coming to do some forensic work in our villa?"

Journalists at the Leveson inquiry described the way that a “code” was developed by which the journalists, but not the public, would know that certain information came from Mitchell on behalf of the McCanns, even though it was usually claimed to come from elsewhere. At the end of each story Mitchell would be identified and pretend to be “responding” (to the stuff that the McCanns had fed or invented!) on behalf of Kate & Gerry McCann.“Today was a bit of a write off for me...

In May 2011 Scotland Yard set up an "investigative review" into the case in response to requests from the McCanns. For the first few months the remnants of the McCann media team stayed quiet.In early 2012 it emerged – via Goncalo Amaral in the first instance – that Scotland Yard, quite unknown to the McCanns, hadn’t been spending all their time marking the PJ nought out of ten for “errors” but were working hand in glove and “very amicably” with another, large and hand-picked, PJ team.

"...as I was laid low with a probable viral illness...

A week after the news, with all that it implied, emerged and was confirmed by the Portuguese government, the McCanns’ Portuguese lawyers began spinning for the first time since 2008 in the Portuguese media, claiming – guess what? – that it was a “new lead” that had emerged. Yep, a new lead. That was why the Portuguese squad had been created, they said. There was no new lead.

"...which meant I could not stray too far from the house!”

In 2013 the Yard announced that they were moving from the review phase into the investigation phase, although, in fact, it had, again unknown to the McCanns, already begun. At which point the wheels began to whirr and haven't stopped since.Exactly the same techniques have been used by Clarence Mitchell on behalf of his employers, the McCanns, as were used in Portugal to destroy the credibility of the original investigation: overt support for Grange by the couple combined with covert fabricated or embroidered stories about either “new leads” or “difficulties”."We’d never lied about anything…But now we found ourselves in one of those...

They have continued to this day, although with noticeably diminishing skill, conviction and energy. At no time have the parents ever asked Mitchell to stop the spinning.

"...tricky situations where we just didn’t seem to have a choice…"

Now come on readers, we know that the loonies look for ever more convoluted theories, more wheels within wheels - because, after all, it's fun. But you don’t need them: none of us do. All you need to ask is why the McCanns have acted in precisely the same way with Operation Grange from 2013-2016 as they did with the PJ investigation in 2007/8. Then you'll find your bearings.

Before reading any media stories from Kate and Gerry McCann and their "ex-employee" Clarence Mitchell, readers are reminded of their track record when it comes to deliberately lying and misleading the public during live police investigations into the disappearance of their daughter

Kate McCann describes August 2 2007, when four detectives seized their clothes and possessions, in her book Madeleine - and she and Gerry McCann conspired to lie to assembled journalists to conceal the fact that they were under investigation:“The police wanted to come over at 10am… We’d never lied about anything…But now we found ourselves in one of those tricky situations where we just didn’t seem to have a choice… can you imagine what would have happened if we’d announced to the journalists heading for Huelva that the police were coming to do some forensic work in our villa?"

Gerry McCann then repeats and adds to the lies the same day in his "blog" - after the police had made them leave the villa for some hours while it was examined:

“Today was a bit of a write off for me as I was laid low with a probable viral illness which meant I could not stray too far from the house!”

Eddie and Keela alerted to items and places concerned with the McCanns - and importantly to no other items or places.

According to Eddie and Keela, the body of Madeleine McCann lay lifeless behind the sofa in Apartment 5a, clinging to the only thing from which she could derive any comfort; a soft toy called 'Cuddle cat'.

Former Met Police Chief Lord Stevens:"There was no hard evidence because of the sheer inadequacy of the Portuguese investigation. There's absolutely no chance the parents of Madeleine McCann would be charged with her murder in this country. I've been a detective at the most senior level for 30 years and have never seen such a witch-hunt, or one based on such flimsy evidence."

Ch Insp Tavares de Almeida: "Kate and Gerald McCann are involved in the concealment of the cadaver of their daughter Madeleine McCann. From what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, doesn't want to deliver the cadaver immediately and voluntarily."

Kate's book 'madeleine', Page 219: "Did they really believe that a dog could smell the 'odour of death' three months later from a body that had been so swiftly removed?"

After forensic analysis of the 'Last Photo' there is little doubt now that the pool photo CANNOT POSSIBLY have been taken on the Thursday 3rd May, but most likely on the Sunday 29th April. So, where was Madeleine at lunchtime on Thursday? We don't know, but we can begin to "purport theories" based both on strong evidence, and lack of evidence.

Dr Gonçalo Amaral, retired PJ Coordinator: "The English can always present the conclusions to which they themselves arrived in 2007. Because they know, they have the evidence of what happened, they don't need to investigate anything. When MI5 opens their files, then we will know the truth."

Ex-Met DCI Colin Sutton: "The most likely scenario is that Madeleine was stolen to order by slave traders and smuggled into Africa for a rich family who wanted a white child."

Ex-Met DCI Andy Redwood had a "revelation moment" on BBC1's Crimewatch on 14th October 2013 when he announced that Operation Grange had eliminated the Tanner sighting - which opened up the 'window' of opportunity', in accordance with their remit, to allow the staged abduction to happen.

Tracey Kandohla: "A McCann pal told The Sun Online: "Some of the savings have been siphoned off from the Find Maddie Fund into a fixed asset account, which financial experts have advised them to do. It can be used for purchases like buying a house or building equipment."

Gerry McCann called for an example to be made of 'trolls'. SKY reporter Martin Brunt doorstepped Brenda Leyland on 2 October 2014 after a 'Dossier' was handed in to Police by McCann supporters. She was then found dead in a Leicester hotel room the next day. Brenda paid the price.